[Sunhelp] SUN OS 5.6 and Solaris 2.6

[Dexter-Al Eugenio]

maybe its just a marketing hype? :)

SunOS uses the series 5.x while Solaris 2.x
before Sun Unix is called SunOS and since they're constantly upgrading it,
they also upgraded the name - well for marketing....

that's my humble opinion.


On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> I believe that Solaris 2.6 is SunOS 5.6 with OpenWindows.
> 	Greg
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: He Gang-W1268C [mailto:Gang_He-W1268C at email.mot.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 11:30 AM
> > To: sunhelp at ohno.mrbill.net
> > Subject: [Sunhelp] SUN OS 5.6 and Solaris 2.6
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > I was asked by one of our users the difference between SUN OS 5.6 and
> > Solaris 2.6.  I thought they are the same. But why SUN name them
> > differently?
> > 
> > Any advice?  Thanks
> > 
> > 
> > Gang He
> > (732)743-8878
> > w1268c at email.mot.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
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